Grammar Quotes

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.